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Google AJAX API from Excel?
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I'd like to access Google search from Excel to determine page rankings - can anyone point me in the right direction, please? I tried direct HTML access, but Google seems to detect and block this after a few requests, so I'd like to use the AJAX API. Thanks and best regards Martin |
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Thsi code gets the number of results for a search at google.
Public Sub GoogleSearch() 'Use and input box for typing in the search words Dim szSearchWords As String Dim szResults As String Dim ie As Object 'InternetExplorer Set ie = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application") ie.Visible = True With Sheets("Sheet1") RowCount = 2 Do While .Range("B" & RowCount) < "" szSearchWords = .Range("B" & RowCount).Value 'Get keywords and validate by adding + for spaces between szSearchWords = Replace$(szSearchWords, " ", "+") ie.Navigate "http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=" & _ szSearchWords & "&meta=" 'Loop until the page is fully loaded Const READYSTATE_COMPLETE = 4 Do Until ie.ReadyState = READYSTATE_COMPLETE DoEvents Loop Set Results = ie.document.getelementsbytagname("P") For Each itm In Results If InStr(UCase(itm.innertext), "RESULTS") Then MsgBox (itm.innertext) 'really item 3, but arrays staarts at 0 NumberofResults = itm.Children.Item(2).innertext .Range("C" & RowCount) = NumberofResults Exit For End If Next itm RowCount = RowCount + 1 Loop End With 'Explicitly clear memory Set ie = Nothing End Sub "Martin Schneider" wrote: Hi! I'd like to access Google search from Excel to determine page rankings - can anyone point me in the right direction, please? I tried direct HTML access, but Google seems to detect and block this after a few requests, so I'd like to use the AJAX API. Thanks and best regards Martin |
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Joel schrieb:
Thsi code gets the number of results for a search at google. Hi, Joel, thanks for the idea. Unfortunately this triggers the anti-spam-mechanism at Google as well. I'd like to try the official way, do you have code for this as well? Thanks and best regards, Martin |
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I did something similar to this a couple of months ago. I don't know HTML
but I helped somebody use the google tanslation API see posting http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...xp=&sloc=en-us Joe wrote HTML code to use the translation API and I wrote the code to run the html and put the data in a speadsheet. See if this code causes the anti-spam to trigger. If it doesn't then we can do something similar for your API. "Martin Schneider" wrote: Joel schrieb: Thsi code gets the number of results for a search at google. Hi, Joel, thanks for the idea. Unfortunately this triggers the anti-spam-mechanism at Google as well. I'd like to try the official way, do you have code for this as well? Thanks and best regards, Martin |
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Joel schrieb:
I did something similar to this a couple of months ago. I don't know HTML but I helped somebody use the google tanslation API see posting http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...xp=&sloc=en-us Hi, Joel, thanks for the link. It pointed me into the right direction. Of course now I have another question (which of course isn't strictly Excel anymore, but I hope I may ask this as well). http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/serv...1.0&q=question gives me search results from google.com - is there a way to get results from google.de? I was unable to find a corresponding parameter... Thanks and best regards, Martin |
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I don't know. I will search around the web later but not sure if I will find
anything. "Martin Schneider" wrote: Joel schrieb: I did something similar to this a couple of months ago. I don't know HTML but I helped somebody use the google tanslation API see posting http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...xp=&sloc=en-us Hi, Joel, thanks for the link. It pointed me into the right direction. Of course now I have another question (which of course isn't strictly Excel anymore, but I hope I may ask this as well). http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/serv...1.0&q=question gives me search results from google.com - is there a way to get results from google.de? I was unable to find a corresponding parameter... Thanks and best regards, Martin |
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Joel schrieb:
I don't know. I will search around the web later but not sure if I will find anything. Thanks for your efforts. In the meantime I learned that this feature is in the pipeline... :-) Best regards Martin |
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On Jul 16, 8:43*am, Martin Schneider <martin.schnei...@illusion-
factory.de wrote: Joel schrieb: I don't know. *I will search around the web later but not sure if I will find anything. Thanks for your efforts. In the meantime I learned that this feature is in the pipeline... :-) Best regards Martin As an aside, I scripted a Google search the other day and would get automatically booted off after about 200 consecutive searches (in a loop of 1,300). (I got that page stating that I looked like a virus and I needed to insert the text from the picture in order to continue searching). I resolved the issue by deleting the google related search cookies in the Temporary Internet Files folder after each 200th time through the loop. Best, Matthew Herbert |
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Matthew Herbert schrieb:
On Jul 16, 8:43 am, Martin Schneider <martin.schnei...@illusion- factory.de wrote: Joel schrieb: I don't know. I will search around the web later but not sure if I will find anything. Thanks for your efforts. In the meantime I learned that this feature is in the pipeline... :-) Best regards Martin As an aside, I scripted a Google search the other day and would get automatically booted off after about 200 consecutive searches (in a loop of 1,300). (I got that page stating that I looked like a virus and I needed to insert the text from the picture in order to continue searching). I resolved the issue by deleting the google related search cookies in the Temporary Internet Files folder after each 200th time through the loop. Hi, thanks! That sounds interesting! Do you script the Internet Explorer or use the Microsoft.XMLHTTP object? (Or maybe this doesn't matter as the IE does this, too :-)) Thanks and best regards, Martin |
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On Jul 17, 12:22*am, Martin Schneider <martin.schnei...@illusion-
factory.de wrote: Matthew Herbert schrieb: On Jul 16, 8:43 am, Martin Schneider <martin.schnei...@illusion- factory.de wrote: Joel schrieb: I don't know. *I will search around the web later but not sure if I will find anything. Thanks for your efforts. In the meantime I learned that this feature is in the pipeline... :-) Best regards Martin As an aside, I scripted a Google search the other day and would get automatically booted off after about 200 consecutive searches (in a loop of 1,300). *(I got that page stating that I looked like a virus and I needed to insert the text from the picture in order to continue searching). *I resolved the issue by deleting the google related search cookies in the Temporary Internet Files folder after each 200th time through the loop. Hi, thanks! That sounds interesting! Do you script the Internet Explorer or use the Microsoft.XMLHTTP object? * (Or maybe this doesn't matter as the IE does this, too :-)) Thanks and best regards, Martin- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Martin, I scripted IE (much like the code Joel provided in the thread) and then used the FileSystemObject to delete the Google search cookies in order to prevent the Google "error" page from appearing. (In order to get a sense of timing, it would take about 8 minutes to loop through the ~1,300 searches, but this time includes the time it took to delete the cookies every 200th time and the time to "get" the data off the search page). If I'm getting stock price information off of say Yahoo!, then I use XMLHTTP because it is much faster than scripting IE. (But then again, I don't find myself automating the Internet that often either). Best, Matt |
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